On Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check out last week’s edition here. Have a great weekend!
Quote of the Day
"There’s no avoiding bad news, and uncertainty will always seem elevated."
(Sam Ro)
Transport
- How to make cars safer for pedestrians. (bbc.com)
- Stockholm has banned petrol and diesel vehicles from the city center. (semafor.com)
- How AI is finding its way into the cockpit. (newatlas.com)
- Electric garbage trucks? Yes, please. (thecooldown.com)
Offshore wind
- The world’s largest floating offshore wind farm is now operational. (thecooldown.com)
- Offshore wind has a cost problem. (city-journal.org)
Environment
- Climate scientists don't know what to make of the spike in temperatures this year. (axios.com)
- The entire seafood supply chain from Chinese trawlers on down is problematic. (semafor.com)
- What happens when abandoned cranberry bogs are restored. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- How to keep microplastics out of the water. (hakaimagazine.com)
Archaeology
- More evidence that humans were in the Americas far earlier than previously thought. (apnews.com)
- A lot more of the Amazon basin is to be mapped by Lidar. (science.org)
- Jamestown, Virginia is coming under risk of flooding and seawater. (bloomberg.com)
Animals
- The more we learn about cephalopods the more careful we should be. (wired.com)
- Grizzly bears are increasingly encroaching on towns in the West. (nytimes.com)
- Zoos are for people, not animals. (vox.com)
Space
- Just how big is the space junk problem? (thehustle.co)
- Why so many spacecraft are at the bottom of ocean near Point Nemo. (bbc.com)
Travel
- New York’s crackdown on short-term rentals has dramatically reshaped the vacation rental market in the city. (wired.com)
- Everybody hates resort fees. (nytimes.com)
Technology
- What happens when your face is stolen? (nytimes.com)
- Why passkeys are more secure than passwords. (arstechnica.com)
Behavior
- Brett Steenbarger, "Mental illness is when we live in the past every day." (traderfeed.blogspot.com)
- Five insights from "Breaking Through Depression: A Guide to the Next Generation of Promising Research and Revolutionary New Treatments" by Dr. Philip William Gold. (nextbigideaclub.com)
Deaths of despair
- The 'deaths of despair' narrative is narrower than reported. (slowboring.com)
- That doesn't mean the phenomenon it's not real. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Opioids play a key role in the life expectancy gap. (ft.com)
Asthma
- Wildfire smoke caused an uptick in asthma cases this summer. (thecooldown.com)
- How treatments for asthma have improved in the past few years. (gq.com)
Cancer
- How AI can be used during brain cancer surgeries. (nytimes.com)
- How pediatric cancer is different from adult cancer. (theconversation.com)
Health
- Another potential use case for GLP-1 agonists, kidney disease. (marketwatch.com)
- CRISPR-based therapies are gaining momentum. (biopharmadive.com)
- Genetics matter the older you get. (wsj.com)
- How the flu vaccine actually works. (scientificamerican.com)
Fitness
- Strength training matters even more as you get older. (theconversation.com)
- The case for walking during a long run. (insidehook.com)
Dogs
Food
- How to read food labels. (modernfarmer.com)
- There are a lot of foods where labeling fraud is the norm, think seafood. (modernfarmer.com)
- How the food industry is trying to fight fraud. (washingtonpost.com)
- How Wendy's is redesigning its stores for a new age. (fastcompany.com)
Drink
- Brown Forman's ($BF.A) Jack Daniels brand is trying to go upscale. (nytimes.com)
- Home alcohol delivery is different kind of business. (fingers.email)
- Non-alcoholic beer sales are booming. (wsj.com)
Media
- Why the addition of live sports to the Max app is a big deal. (blog.johnwallstreet.com)
- Streaming services were built without a thought to the customer experience. (theinformation.com)
- On the high costs of cancelled concerts. (wsj.com)
Sports
- How MLB achieved a nearly 10% increase in attendance. (fastcompany.com)
- The expanded CFP is a hot media property. (frontofficesports.com)
School
- Are oral exams the cure for AI cheating? (edsurge.com)
- The DoD's school system shows great results. (nytimes.com)
- A third of schools don't have a nurse. (cbsnews.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What you missed in our Friday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- This blog just celebrated its eighteenth anniversary. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: deepening deepfakes. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The current ETF market provides something for everyone. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Dying with zero: the life of Charles Feeney. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Sub-3% mortgage rates are now a distant memory. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)